Santa Came!!!!!

Christmas was really fun this year. It's the first year Lucy really knew what was going on and Lydia was big enough to open her own presents. They had a blast! We opened presents and then had a nice healthy breakfast of sausage, eggs, sweet rolls, and chocolate milk. It was SO good! Then we spent the rest of the day with our cousins again. We played a fun bingo game with some great prizes! Ate some yummy food and just hung out with family. It was nice.

Christmas Eve with the cousins.

Lucy and Liddy in their christmas "pa-jamies"

We spent Christmas eve at Grandma Mathis' house with Mike's brother Jim and his family. These are their kids (Kennedy 2 1/2, Lydia 1 1/2, Taylor 2 1/2, Maci 5, Lucy 3, Madison 5.) Lucy and Lydia had so much fun playing with their cousins. They live in Arizona and we only get to see them 2 times a year. Lucy especially loved playing with the older twins.

Santa Claus is comen' to town!

This year has been pretty fun with Lucy. Her favorite christmas songs on the radio are Little Drummer Boy (she'll sing "rum-pa-pa pum, rum-pa-pa-pum," over and over again) and Do You See What I See. Her favorite primary song is "Mary, Mary, hush see the Child" and she sings them all the time. She knows about Santa, and most of what is coming. She was so excited to see him at the mall. Lydia was fine to just stay with Mike.

Grandma Collier gave us this cute book of books advent calendar that tells a little part of the Christmas story every day and Lucy has really loved it. Plus I really want her to know why we have a big celebration at this time of year. It's Jesus' birthday! She's been excited about that cuz she really likes birthdays.

Here are some of our "decking of the halls."

Thank goodness for 3ft prelit trees up on desks!

Our cute knitted stockings! (no, I did NOT knit them. Not even close!)

 

And our Mamma and Pappa mice. My mom made these when I was a little kid and I've always loved them. She gave them to me last year!

Merry Christmas!

Remember:

Christ is the Gift